“We are proud to announce the ‘winners’ of #EOFF2019! Through conversation with members, artists, and the community, as well as some good ol’ fashioned eavesdropping, […]
Category: The Films
2019 Short Films
View a list of all short film selections for #EOFF2019.
Pigeon Kings
dir. Milena Pastreich
2019, USA, 81:00, Nonfiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
Pariah Dog
dir. Jesse Alk
2019, USA, 76:57, Nonfiction
Leave The Bus Through The Broken Window
dir. Andrew Hevia
2019, USA, 01:08:32, Nonfiction
*Editor in Attendance
I Am Human
dir. Taryn Southern, Elena Gaby
2019, USA, 90:00, Nonfiction
* Filmmaker in Attendance
General Magic
dir. Sarah Kerruish & Matt Maude
2018, USA, 92:00, Nonfiction
Empty Metal
dir. Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer
2018, USA, 85:00, Fiction
Danny
dir. Aaron Zeghers & Lewis Bennett
2019, USA, 50:28, Nonfiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
Clementine
dir. Lara Jean Gallagher
2019, USA, 86:00, Fiction
Camp Wedding
dir. Greg Emetaz
2019, USA, 90:00, Fiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
Begonia
dir. Gavin Baird
2019, Canada, 63:24 mins, Fiction
*World Premiere * Filmmaker in Attendance
#EOFF2018 (Un)official Awards
#EOFF2018 (Un)official Awards “Once again, it brings us great pleasure to announce the ‘winners’ of #EOFF2018! The selections here have been determined through an informal […]
2018 Online Program
2018 Online Program In keeping with tradition and growing our mission to provide access to independent film outside of The Grande Ronde Valley, Eastern Oregon […]
2018 Official Short Films
Official short film selections for #EOFF2018! An incredible array of diverse and creative content and subjects that hint and haunt in the best of ways.
THE RIDER
dir. Chloé Zhao
2017, USA, 104 mins, Fiction & Nonfiction
THUNDER ROAD
dir. Jim Cummings
2018, USA, 91:34 mins, Fiction
101 SECONDS
dir. Skye Fitzgerald
2018, USA, 83:00 mins, Nonfiction
THE PAIN OF OTHERS
dir. Penny Lane
2018, USA, 71:00 mins, Nonfiction
RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE
dir. Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer, Quinn Costello
2017, USA, 71:00 mins, Nonfiction
IN REALITY
dir. Ann Lupo
2018, USA, 95:32 mins, Fiction & Nonfiction
INVENTING TOMORROW
dir. Laura Nix
2018, USA, 87 mins, Nonfiction
INGRID
dir. Morrisa Maltz
2018, USA, 52 mins, Nonfiction
FOR THE BIRDS
dir. Richard Miron
2018, USA, 92:00 mins, Nonfiction
CLARA’S GHOST
dir. Bridey Elliot
2018, USA, 80:00 mins, Fiction
ANOTE’S ARK
dir. Matthieu Ritz
2018, Canada, 77:00 mins, Nonfiction
LONG LOST
dir. Erik Bloomquist 2018, USA, 95 mins, Fiction
NINE YEARS!??? Yup.
EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL Official Selections for the NINTH ANNUAL — #EOFF2018. Eastern Oregon Film Festival is proud to announce its Official Selections for the 2018 […]
2016 Online Selections
Online Selections will stream exclusively at Filmmaker Magazine on October 21 & 22 starting at 9am EST. SPIDER VEINS (dir. Frank Mosley) 2016 / USA […]
2016 Secret Screenings
SHH… ITS A SECRET. Come join filmmaker Cambria Matlow and check out a couple top-secret screenings at The Stage Door Theatre — Saturday,October 22 at 3:30pm. XXXX […]
2016 Short Film Selections
Abandoned Generations (dir. Linda Fenstermaker) A portrait of farmland in the Pacific Northwest, Abandoned Generations explores relationships with land and time in different generations. Told […]
Tracktown
Dir. Jeremy Teicher, Alexi Pappas
2016, USA, 87min, Narrative Feature
Voyagers Without Trace
Dir. Ian McCluskey
2015, USA, 80min, Documentary Feature
Nosotras · Ellas
Dir. Julia Pesce
2015, Argentina, 63min, Documentary Feature
Actor Martinez
Dir. Nathan Silver and Mike Ott
2016, USA, 75min, Documentary Feature
Driving Not Knowing
Dir. Benjamin R. Davis, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Jay Jadick, Dane Mainella
2015, USA, 87min, Narrative Feature
BOONE
Dir. Christopher LaMarca
2016, USA, 74min, Documentary Feature
INAATE/SE/
Dir. Zack Khalil, Adam Khalil
2016, USA, 75min, Documentary Feature
What’s Revenge
Dir. Kat Hunt
2016, USA, 50min, Narrative Feature
Man Underground
Dir. Sam Marine & Michael Borowiec
2016, USA, 95min, Narrative Feature
Jacqueline (Argentine)
Dir. Bernardo Britto
2016, USA, 87min, English, Spanish, Arabic, Comedy Feature
Excursions
Dir. Daniel Martinico
2016, USA, 79min, Narrative Feature
50 Feet From Syria
Dir. Sam Marine & Michael Borowiec
2016, USA, 95min, Narrative Feature
MA
Dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall
2015, USA, 83min, Narrative Feature
Always Shine
Dir. Sophia Takal
2016, USA, 85min, Narrative Feature
2015 ONLINE SELECTIONS
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (dir. Sam Kuhn) Technical Info 2014 / USA / 15min / Experimental Short Synopsis A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be […]
2015 SHORT FILM SELECTIONS
Short films precede each feature block.
BUFFALO JUGGALOS
dir. Scott Cummings
2014, USA, 30min, Experimental Short
PLANETARY
dir. Guy Reid
2015, UK+USA, 85min, Documentary Feature
THE LAST SEASON
dir. Sara Dosa
2015, USA, 80min, Documentary Feature
MUDBLOODS
dir. Farzad Sangari
2014, USA, 89min, Documentary Feature
WESTERN
dir. Ross Bros
2015, USA, 93min, Documentary Feature (English subtitles)
A WONDERFUL CLOUD
dir. Eugene Kotlyrenko
2015, USA, 78min, Narrative Feature
THE MAN IN THE WALL
dir. Evgeny Ruman
2015, Israel, 92min, Narrative Feature (Hebrew, with English Subtitles)
BIKES VS. CARS
dir. Fredrik Geraten
2015, Sweden, 91min, Documentary Feature
APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT
dir. Amanda Wilder
2014, USA, 89min, Documentary Feature
LAKE LOS ANGELES
dir. Mike Ott
2014, USA, 85min, Narrative Feature
JOY KEVIN
dir. Caleb Johnson
2014, USA, 62min, Narrative Feature
FUNNY BUNNY
dir. Alison Bagnall
2015, USA, 86min, Narrative Feature
NoBudge x Vine
View a curated collection of VINE videos by filmmaker Kentucker Audley. CURATOR’S STATEMENT Thanks to EOFF for asking me to curate some of my favorite Vines. […]
YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG
Directed by Zach Weintraub [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Narrative Feature (85min / Online Premiere) [/box] Justine left to sit quietly by and observe the […]
MMXIII
Directed, edited, photographed, produced by Ian Clark [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Experimental Feature 67min [/box] Synopsis An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections […]
HAWAIIAN PUNCH
Directed, Edited, Photographed, Produced by Nandan Rao [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Narrative Feature (68 min) [/box] Synopsis “Our boys, when they arrive at years of […]
2014 Short Film Selections
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to announce the official short film selections for #EOFF2014. These powerful short works will preface the 2014 feature selections.
HOLLOW: AN INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY
Directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon [box] Interactive documentary. 30 short films. 4 hours total. Entire video collection >> https://vimeo.com/hollowdocumentary/videos Website: http://www.hollowdocumentary.com [/box] Hollow is an interactive documentary […]
BENDING STEEL
THURSDAY FEB. 20 / GRANADA / 7:00PM
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
(92min / OR Premiere)
BUOY
SATURDAY FEB. 22 / STAGE DOOR / 7:20PM
NARRATIVE FEATURE
(77min / EO Premiere)
TRIPTYCH
FRIDAY FEB. 21 / GRANADA / 2:40PM
NARRATIVE FEATURE
(90min / OR Premiere)
DOOMSDAYS
SATURDAY FEB. 22 / GRANADA / 7:35PM
FEATURE NARRATIVE
(80min / OR Premiere)
LOVE & AIR SEX
FRIDAY FEB. 21 / GRANADA / 7:30PM
FEATURE COMEDY
(91min / Premiere)
AATSINKI: THE STORY OF ARCTIC COWBOYS
SATURDAY FEB. 22 / STAGE DOOR / 2:00PM
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
(90min / OR Premiere)
12 O’CLOCK BOYS
FRIDAY FEB. 21 / GRANADA / 5:15PM
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
(75min / OR Premiere)
LENNY COOKE
SATURDAY FEB. 22 / GRANADA / 4:40PM
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
(96min / WC Premiere)
RICH HILL
SATURDAY FEB. 22 / STAGE DOOR / 4:35PM
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
(90min / WC Premiere)
TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE
SATURDAY FEB. 22 / GRANADA / 2:00PM
FEATURE NARRATIVE
(82min / E.O. Premiere)
BOB BIRDNOW’S REMARKABLE TALE OF HUMAN SURVIVAL AND THE TRANSCENDENCE OF SELF
FRIDAY FEB. 21 / STAGE DOOR / 7:00PM
FEATURE NARRATIVE
(74min / WC Premiere)
ONLY THE YOUNG
Directors Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims
Only The Young encapsulates the best of documentary film with its sincerity but is shot with the beautiful still aesthetic of a narrative film. This coming of age documentary is scored with soul music which makes it unlike any other documentary film.
I’m ready to file ONLY THE YOUNG in the all-time coming of age canon.
– Hammer & Nail
THE INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR CHOKING
Director Zach Weintraub
The International Sign for Choking depicts the day-to-day encounters of Josh, a would-be expatriate from the US living in Buenos Aires for the second time. While his primary purpose seems to be the production of a vaguely defined video project, he devotes more of his time to tracking down a mysteriously absent ex-girlfriend. Frustrated by continual failure, Josh finds himself the perpetrator of a series of small yet uncharacteristic acts of deceit that ultimately place him in a low-key love triangle alongside Anna, his fellow N. American housemate, and Roger, a local musician.
WAR WITCH (Rebelle)
Director & Writer Kim Nguyen
The sensitively imagined story of a child soldier in Africa makes War Witch a genre benchmark and a breakout work for writer-director Kim Nguyen.”
– The Hollywood Reporter
THE MEN OF DODGE CITY
*Oregon Premiere Director Nandan Rao Rao has created a film that moves in small steps. Viewers are given little in terms of plot, but are […]
YOSSI
Director Eytan FOX
A sequel to Eytan Fox’s breakthrough gay story of love and loss on the front lines, Yossi & Jagger(2002), this tender new drama follows Yossi, now a doctor, who turns the corner on the enduring pain of grief. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.”
ESCAPE FIRE: THE FIGHT TO RESCUE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE
Directors Matthew Heinman & Susan Froemke
ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system?
AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY
Directed by Terence Nance
You’ve just arrived home after a bad day. You’re broke and lonely, even though you live in the biggest and busiest city in America. You do, however, have one cause for mild optimism: you seem to have captured the attention of an intriguing young lady. You’ve rushed home to clean your apartment before she comes over. In your haste, you see that you’ve missed a call. There’s a voice mail; she tells you that she won’t be seeing you tonight.
FINDING TRUELOVE
Director Sam Kuhn
Clay, Michael and Andrew are fascinated by a yearbook from Chico High’s class of 1990 that they discover at a Value Village. Intrigued by the cryptic word “Caduceus” emblazoned across the cover, and by the countless sweet mullets and dream girls inside, the three friends lock onto one particular student: feather-banged mystery man Timothy Truelove.
CINEMA SIX
Directed and Writers Mark Potts & Cole Selix
Cinema Six resembles a movie theater-set version of “Office Space” with the same kind of raunchy humor and quarter-to-mid-life ennui.”
“Lead actor John Merriman… handles comedy and drama with equal ease and the whole cast delivers with a fair share of absurd comedic moments.”
Crazy & Thief
Director Cory McAbbee
Two children, a homemade star chart, a cyclops, a giant and a time machine.
a gentle treat for McAbee enthusiasts and a mildly curious study of juvenile behavior for everyone else, which is certainly enough to satisfy this fan.”
– Eric Kohn (Indiewire)
OK, Good
Director Daniel Martinico
A struggling actor spirals ever downward during the grueling process of trying to find steady work.
A riveting portrait of an actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown — or, quite possibly, something worse… Armstrong [gives] a rigorously controlled performance that suggests the human equivalent of a ticking time bomb.” – Joe Leydon, Variety
Almost in Love
Directed by Sam Neave
a love story in two takes
A love story shot in two single, continuous 40 minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second over a sunrise. Sasha has been in love with Mia for years.
2013 Short Film Selections
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to announce the following short films for inclusion in this year’s event. These powerful short stories will preface each […]
2011 Official Short Film Selections
Eastern Oregon Film Festival announces the official 2011 short film selection. Each feature film for this year’s festival will be preceded by one of these great short films.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Feature Documentary
TRT: 85 min. | U.S.A. | color
A film by JON FOY.
Awards: 2011 Sundance Director’s Award: Documentary
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don’t notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.
Green
Narrative Feature
TRT: 72 min.| U.S.A. | color
Written and Directed by Sophia Takal
Awards: SXSW / Chicken & Egg Emergent Woman Director Award
An intimate friendship between two women dissolves as they are drawn into an irrational, destructive spiral of jealousy and paranoid fantasy in this haunting examination of the female psyche.
Cirkus Columbia
Narrative Feature
TRT: 113min | Bosnia | color
A film by Danis Tanovic
*In Bosnian with English Subtitles
Official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. The communists have fallen from power and Divko Buntic returns to the small town where he grew up to reclaim his family home. After a 20-year exile in Germany. Divko arrives in his flashy red Mercedes with sexy young girlfriend Azra, lucky black cat Bonny and …
The Last Mountain
Feature Documentary
TRT: 113min | USA | color
Director: Bill Haney
*A panel discussion hosted by Oregon Rural Action will follow the screening.
In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect every American, regardless of their social status, economic background or where they live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so the longer it is waged. It is a battle over
protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal.
DRAGONSLAYER
Documentary Feature — West Coast Premiere
TRT 74 minute | United States | HD
Director: Tristan Patterson
Awards: Best Documentary Feature, SXSW 2011, Best Cinematography, SXSW 2011, Best International Feature, Hot Docs 2011
Drag City in association with Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.
COUNTRY STORY
Narrative Feature
A Film by Ian Clark
TRT 64 Min | USA | Color
Jason is a small-town slacker living with his mom. Content with idle days and easy livin’, his forgetful nature creates tension at home so he sets off with his pals to try his hand at redemption.
Bad Fever
Narrative Feature — West Coast Premiere
TRT: 77 minute | United States | Color
Director: Dustin Guy Defa
Alternatingly quiet and delirious, always desperate, Bad Fever is a witness to one man’s broken American Dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pretends to understand.
Nobody Cares
Narrative Feature – WORLD PREMIERE
A Film by Dustin Travis Swartz
TRT 95 Min | USA | Color
Bob Rockefeller has never been loved, by anyone, ever. He’s a sad sack who shovels shit for a living. Life has been anything but extraordinary but that’s about to change. During a routine prostate exam, Bob learns he has only 8.5 days to live. 8.5 days to find happiness. 8.5 days to find true love. 8.5 days to find a home for his guinea pigs. 8.5 days to make up for 43 years of living a life that totally sucks.
Press Pause Play
Feature Documentary
A Film by Victor Köhler and David Dworsky
TRT 80 minute | United States | Color
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
Bellflower
Narrative Feature
A film by Evan Glodell
TRT: 105 min | United States | Color
World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival 2011
Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building MAD MAX-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies.